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The Virtues Of the Table: How To Eat and Think
[Paperback - 2015]
julian baggini
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Category: Philosophy
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Publisher: Granta Books Uk | ISBN: 9781847087157 | Pages: 320
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How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us to decide how to live? From the author of The Ego Trick and The Pig that Wants to be Eaten comes a thought-provoking exploration of our values and vices. What can fasting teach us about autonomy? Should we, like Kant, dare to know cheese? Should we take media advice on salt with a pinch of salt? And can food be more virtuous, more inherently good, than art?

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Julian Baggini is the founder of The Philosophers Magazine. His books include Do You Think What You Think You Think? (with Jeremy Stangroom), What s It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, the best-selling The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten, The Ego Trick and The Virtues of the Table, all published by Granta Books. He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He has also appeared as a character in two Alexander McCall-Smith novels. His latest book, Freedom Regained, was published by Granta Books in 2015.

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